Posted on 09/08/2011 9:55:21 PM PDT by Steelfish
Obama The Aggressive By Chris Cillizza
President Obama delivered a forceful call to action in a speech on jobs tonight to Congress, repeatedly employing rhetoric that sounded like the early stages of his 2012 campaign stump speech.
Many of the proposals in Obama’s $447 billion jobs plan had been previewed before he stepped in front of a joint session of Congress around 7 pm eastern time. But his aggressive tone was something new — and unexpected.
“I am sending Congress a plan that you should pass right away,” Obama urged at the start of the address. It was a sign of things to come as he time and again called on Congress to “pass this bill...right away.”
At the speech’s conclusion, Obama issued a clear warning to those who would stand in the way of the bill; “You should pass it,” he said. “And I intend to take that message to every corner of this country.”
At times, the aggressiveness of Obama’s tone seemed to be a mismatch for the actual meat and potatoes of the speech, which was larded with proposals aimed at the ideological middle.
But, the tone of the speech will be the story — and will almost certainly define how both parties react to it.
For Democrats, the speech was a revelation — a glimpse of “Obama as fighter” that many within his own party have felt had been lacking since he took office in 2009.
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He can come visit me, I’d gladly show him where I think he can shove his “plan”
Good luck. He gave 93 speeches on Obamacare, then said the majority of Americans are against it because he didn’t explain it enough.
How can you pass a plan? Does this moron have the foggiest idea of how our government operates? I guess not.
I keep hearing about this Obama guy - anyone out there ever actually hear anything he has to say?
Oooh, we’re scared...will he come riding in on Golf Cart One?
I guess this means more overtime for Air Force One and Obozo’s Bus Tour caravan? Whoopie! I'm impressed, aren't you all?
I guess this means more overtime for Air Force One and Obozo’s Bus Tour caravan? Whoopie! I'm impressed, aren't you all?
“I guess this means more overtime for Air Force One and Obozo’s Bus Tour caravan?”
It also means more free time for Michelle to vacation on our dime.
With clubs no doubt.
“To every corner of the country”
Yeah, he’s going to ride through the country side yelling...The Bull.... is coming! The Bull.... is coming!
It seemed there was a bit of widespread laughing that had 0 put on his mean face.
Go ahead, Zero. Hop on Air Force 1 and fly around the country. No one expects you to work hard anyway.
I guess he will be back to putting his Canadian made buses onto taxfunded airplanes to every airport in the country so he can drive them 2 blocks and call it the new magical mystery bus tour.
Aggressive? I would call it desperate.
Bring it on desperado.
which, given your track record of business viability post visit, would have the exact opposite effect of the message. Your mere presence is a job killer.
So the Democrats whole game-plan here is to have Obama try and bully Congress for more money and try and avoid any discussion about the waste , fraud and abuse that gobbled up 95% of the last trillion dollar stimulus. But then again the liberal meme is always ..”Just do something”. I agree with some of the sentiment here, parse out Obama’s wish list and bundle what is passable and throw out the junk like the infrastructure spending and tax increases, pass it on to the Senate. Obama will demagogue anyways, no matter what they do. It’s always about him.
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